Types and Genesis of Folk Characters in Yingxian Muta Liao Dynasty Secretbook

Through paying attention to the differences and the relations of folk characters,wrong characters,interchangeable characters and variant forms of the same character,the existing problems of folk characters' types are analysed,then the new classification methods are proposed in accordance with the variant forms of the same character types.The genesises of folk characters are discussed from two aspects of idea and carrier form.